Gary L. Hansen (1991) discussed two basic factors for increasing work family conflict i.e. increase in female workforce and single parenthood. Both factors lead to increase work overload due to multiple roles among family members. They have too much to do and too little time in which to do the work both paid work & unpaid household work. Mothers of preschoolers faced this problem frequently. According to the study, the major problems experienced by employed family members fall into seven categories: Child care, Elder care, work time, relocation, job autonomy & job demands, supervisory relationships and supportive organizational culture.
12- Gary D Hansen; “Balancing work & family: A literature and resources review” family relations; 40:3
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To inform guidelines for the development of university work and family related, personnel policies. Different variables like child care, elder care, marital status, spouse support, spouse job difficulties social support from co-worker, dissatisfaction with resources and perceive unfair criticisms were studied. The results indicated that difficulties in caring for children and elderly dependents are the primary causes of work and family role strain in the family domain while dissatisfaction with resource and perceived unfair criticism are primary in work domain. The predictor of work and family role stain are similar for faculty and staff and for men and women with one exception having supportive spouse or partner reduces work and family role strain much more for women than it does for men. Further it was suggested by the author that universities must pay need to work and family condition when tailoring their work and family …show more content…
Employees can enjoy better Work Life Balance through combining professional career with childcare and elder care responsibilities. Whereas employers can enjoy improved recruitment and retention rate, less labour costs etc. Study found that full benefits of this system was not being realized because of no substantial change in work structure, under utilization of skilled workforce, less bargaining power of part time workers etc. n-174 Christine Edwards; olive robinson; “evaluating the business case for parttime working amongst qualified nurse; “british journal of industrial relation; 42:1, march 2004 pp
Anna Quindlen is an awarded novelist and journalist. She is the author of the article “Playing God on No Sleep”, that was published the Newsweek magazine. In this article Quindlen, attempts to persuade readers that since “God could not be everywhere… he made mothers [instead]” (2001). She also attempts to convince the readers that motherhood is challenging and overwhelming.
This analysis paper exams various styles of conflict and how this family chooses to handle their conflict. In 2005 Anthony and Jay were put in the custody of the State of California. Anthony was 5 years old and his brother Jay was 3 years old. After their mother Jackie a drug addict fell to provide, care or support them. Jackie would leave them with strangers and family member for extended periods of time.
In response to hospitals being under staffed with nurses, Theresa Brown argues that hospitals must have a sufficiently large nursing staff in her article “When No One Is on Call”. She effectively builds her argument by using personal anecdotes and statistics. Brown begins the speech by recalling a personal story when she was in nursing school with understaffed busy nurses. A patient needed their pain medicine dose adjusted, the patient’s pain subsided, but the patient experienced shortness of breath and low oxygen levels. Brown informed the patient’s nurse that the patient needed narcan to reverse the impact from the pain medicine.
Collins provides examples on individuals having less time to spend at home with their families because they have to put in more hours at work. The reason for why they need to
A gap is growing between family and work. This problem can be focused down to three main things: the strive for perfection, health, and technological
Rhetorical Analysis of a Scholarly Article Proposal Healthcare has become one of the most demanding professions a person can go into. As Laureen J. Hayes discusses in her article, Nurse Turnover, the demands placed on nurses has reduced the amount of people willing and able to do this job, effecting the entirety of health care. Since Hayes knows her target audience, she is able to determine the most effective way to express her point. Implementing research and studies done on the topic improves the ethos of the article. With the improved credibility, people are more willing to trust the author and the purpose of the paper will be better understood.
Women and the battle to maintain a work-lifestyle balance has been consistently debated and toyed with by society for ages. Anne-Marie Slaughter, Professor of Politics and author of “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All” explains the continuous hardship of balancing a career and a family; as well, Stephen Marche, writer and author of “Home Economics: The Link Between Work-Life and Income Equality” combats Slaughter’s article and the many gaps present in society. Slaughter and Marche compare and contrast the differences of the leadership gap between men and women, the strategies of maintaining a work-balance lifestyle in regards to family, and the type of dialogue representing men in articles written by women. Anne-Marie Slaughter and Stephen
Marston Marryott Professor Morris ENG 112.0041 – Comparative Rhetorical Analysis 25 March 2023 The Elusive Work-Life Balance for Men In families with two working parents, the classic debate infers that women struggle more to achieve a work-life balance. In 2013, Richard Dorment, senior editor of Wired magazine, wrote the entertaining and thought-provoking essay “Why Men Still Can’t Have It All,” that was published in Esquire magazine (617). Using logos and pathos, Dorment provides a father’s perspective of work-life balance, appealing to the male audience.
This instils a sense of fairness among the employees and keeps them happy. Work life balance: a. Family friendly policy- The parents (both mother and father) get two month long paid parental leave. During this the parents can travel with their child and the company pays for a child development teacher as a part of ‘travelling baby’ program. This helps them reducing absenteeism and helps the company retain workers, most importantly woman.
There’s no typical family as nuclear families as in the past and not everyone lives in a multigenerational household. Same-sex families are also on the rise as sexual ambiguity is undergoing its own wave of acceptance in all political, social, and economic spheres. With the absence of the parents’ presence in the home due to an inability effectively balance work and home life, children could develop an emotional void/absence. Good communicative dialogue between children and their parents where the adults describe their work situation as it relates to the home to create resilient children, could possibly benefit the household.
Flexibility is vital in motherhood and the workforce. A child may become sick, needing the caring mother, at any given moment. Therefore, the employee needs time to meet the needs of the child, but she should also complete the expected tasks. If she is meeting the company’s needs, flexibility should not be a problem. Preparation and knowing what to expect beforehand is the key to climbing the ladder of success and not fall into the
The ANA (2017) recognizes three main factors that contribute the nursing shortage. The ageing RN workforce has become a concern in recent years that is only likely to grow. There are a large amount of experienced nurses within the baby boom generation (those born between 1946 and 1964) who are reaching retirement. The cost of this will be an alarming loss of experienced nurses when the demand is likely the highest.
Index Introduction……………………………………………………………page 3 Pre-appointment research……………………………………………page 4 Job shadowing experience………………………………………….. page 5-6 Overview……………………………………………………………….. page 7 References… …………………………………………………………. page 8 Introduction The beginning of medicine can be pinned back to the late 1800s, in Germany.
Theoretical Framework: Conflict Perspective: Conflict perspective focuses their attention on society as a whole. Conflict theorists see society as in a continuous sate of conflict between groups and classes. He struggle for power and income is a continuous process but one in which many categories of people appear as opponents-classes, races, nationalities and even the sexes. Society is held together through the power of dominant groups or classes. The shared values, which functionalist see as glue for holding society together, do no realty form rue consensus; instead this is an artificial consensus in which the dominant groups or classes impose their values and rules upon rest of the people.
i. // DEFINITION OF CONFLICT // What exactly is conflict? We might often find ourselves being confused to stumble upon questions like these. Conflict has various meanings, according to Google, conflict comes in both noun and verb forms. As a noun, conflict means a serious disagreement, typically a one that lasts for quite a long period of time. However, as a verb, conflict means being incompatible, at variance and also, clash.